The Osceola times., 1887-08-06
Osccola Rain DrOps.

Too hot to live, and not cool
enough to die with any degree of
comfort.
The wood-hauling season is a,
hand, and the dust raised by the
teamsters is intolerablc.
Rev. ]. F. Lloyd will preach a,
the Union Church to-morrowj at the
usual hours.
Mr.. Robert Gaines and family
have moved to town and are domi.
ciled in the Feezor house.
-Mr.Alex w. Walker, left Tues
day for Virginia, to visit his sister
and other relatives.
The Post Office has had new
roof put on it this week, and Heck
says the temperature is fully ten de-
grees lower,
Mr.. N. l.. Avery and family,
moved out in the country this week,
TO avoid the dust and heat of the
city until the heated term is over.
Mr.. James Miles, our brick.
maker, was presented with two lit
tie Miles by his better half, last
Thursday.
Mrs. r. Ssmmes AMI daughter,
of Mobile, Ala, arrived in Osceola,
Thursday, the guests Of Capt. 5. S.
Eemmcs.
--Mrs Charles Goodrleh, after a
two months visit to relatives in Me-
tropols, Ills, returned home last
week.
MIR. NJ. II. Fletcher and family
will set out tomorrow on their way
to Cabool, No., where they go with
the view Of improving their health
Mrs. Sallie Driver, Mrs. Jas. d.
Driver and Mrs. Abner Driver, lcf,
Thursday for sojourn at Gibson's
Wells, Tenn.
MIR. W, F. Williams, wife and
daughter, and Mess. John and James
Keiser, who are visitors at his house
are ell ON the sick list this week.
Alderman +. B. Hale was mad.
happy for the 7h time, by being
presented with big boy by Mrs
II. last Wednesday. All dong yell
New subscribers: Eugene La
font, Metropolis, Ills; r. Lewis
3ar6eld Point, Ark. Renewals: J
L. Edrington, Fort Smith, Ark.
Mrs. c. Enlow presented he
liege lord with a rolicking, bounc
ing twelve pound daughter last Tues
day. All doing we'll, and happy.
Mrs. Dunavant and children
and Miss Susie Wheeler, spent sew
ersl days during the week at Col
den lake, taking in tie Sunda,
School picnic.
We understand Mr.. Hamilton
has some fine water MELONS grow
ing on his sand-bar plantation wbicl
he says will weigh from 40 to G.
pounds each, and which he will pu
on the market in few days.
No rain in this vicinity In thrc
weeks, with the thermometer neye
below ninety during the day-n,
wonder that the soil, which is natu
rally porous, should become dry ant
thirsty.
Mr.. Henry f Williams cam,
home on 4 short visit during tn,
week, and was heartily welcomed b,
his numerous friends. He return
to-day to Etna, Tenn, where he i
now located.
MIR. James Liston left Tuesday
to join his family, at Louisville, Ky.
to be absent until about the 18th
School teachers holding warrants TO
payment will govern themselves ac
cordingly.
The new building opposite Col
George w. Thomason's law Office
put up by Meas. Faber & Schnabel
is about completed, and is the neat
est and hahdsomest business houst
in the town.
The crop Of cotton and corn
which, three weeks ago was so prom.
ising, will, it is now feared, be very
materially cut short, by reason Of the
continued dry weather which i:
causing the cotton to shed its forms
Quite a number of Osceolaites
attended the Sunday School Picnic
at Golden Lake last Thursday, where
an entertaining programme was pre-
sented and carried out tor the enter.
tainment and edliicat:on OF the as.
sembled multitude.
Labor and capital locked horns
in Osccola this week, but contrary
to all precedent, labor in this case
assumed the role of monopoly, by
renting all the shops and closing
them up, in order to secure all the
patronage. The struggle will be
watched with interest.